Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, three people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal workforce decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic lawyers basic lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have actually submitted lawsuits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial support.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on increasing hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats versus the judiciary had increased “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was among a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote long-term US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has actually been in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, but advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new indictment, is implicated of ‘required labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. government employees who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law practice, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid professionals and grant receivers by 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Monday, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed the administration’s demand to avoid a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.